Hwang Sok-yong / 황석영 / 2023 / -

"De algún modo no sentía el vacío bajo sus pies. Cuando hacía deporte caminando una y otra vez por la zona de la barandilla, sentía el impulso de caminar sobre el aire. Jinoh metió el cuerpo entre los barrotes, inclinándose, y extendió una pierna. Parecía que estaba pisando un mullido colchón o edredón. Sujeto con ambas manos a la barandilla, sacó los dos pies por fuera." source: https://www.bookdepository.com/Mater-2-10-Hwang-Sok-yong/9788411482318

Hwang Sok-yong / 황석영 / 2023 / -

In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-story factory chimney. During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning of life, on wisdom passed down the generations. Through the lives of those ancestors, three generations of railroad workers, Mater 2-10 vividly portrays the struggles of ordinary Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first century. It is at once a gripping account of a nation’s longing to be free from oppression, a lyrical folktale that reflects the blood, sweat, and tears shed by modern industrial laborers, and a culmination of Hwang’s career―a masterpiece thirty years in the making. Source : https://www.amazon.com/Mater-2-10-Hwang-Sok-yong/dp/1957363312